> > Has it occurred to you that this first AI will have
> been
> > produced by humans, and hence "all the rivals" to be
> shut
> > down will mean not AIs, but humans? Are you quite
> > confident that we will meet this future AI's criteria
> for
> > compassion? We don't even meet mine, and I'm human.
> >
>
> Or, to be clearer. Humans cannot rival an AI. Not past
> the first few
> hours or days, anyway. This is no motivation to kill
> humans.

Clearly, humans can, since they produced the first AI,
and they can thus produce other AIs.

- Phil

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